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Stir-up Sunday is an informal term in Anglican churches for the last Sunday before the season of Advent.〔''Oxford English Dictionary''. Second edition, 1989 (first published in ''New English Dictionary'', 1917). "Stir-up Sunday (colloq.): the Sunday next before Advent: so called from the opening words of the Collect for the day. The name is jocularly associated with the stirring of the Christmas mincemeat, which it was customary to begin making in that week."〕 The Christmas pudding is one of the essential British Christmas traditions and is said to have been introduced to the Victorians by Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. The reality is that the meat-less version was introduced from Germany by George I in 1714.〔(Who needs Nigella? Stir-up Sunday: the idiot’s guide to home-made Christmas pudding ) Retrieved 24 July 2013〕 ==Family activity== Traditionally, families gather together in the kitchen of their homes to mix and steam Christmas pudding on Stir-up Sunday.〔(This weekend is Stir Up Sunday – traditionally the time to make your Christmas pudding ) Retrieved 24 July 2013〕 Parents teach their children how to mix ingredients for the pudding. Everyone takes a turn to stir the pudding mix for each person involved is able to make a special wish for the year ahead. Practically, stirring the mixture is hard work, therefore as many as possible are involved. By tradition the pudding mixture is stirred from East to West in honour of the three wise men who visited the baby Jesus.〔(Stir-up Sunday Christmas Pudding Day ) Retrieved 4 November 2015〕 In some households, silver coins are added to the pudding mix.〔(Christmas Pudding "Stir Up Sunday" ) Retrieved 24 July 2013〕 It is believed that finding a coin brings good luck. Nowadays, sterilised (i.e. boiled) silver coins are placed under each serving on Christmas Day to avoid emergency visits to the dentist - and intra-family arguments! In recent times, two-thirds of British children surveyed, revealed that they had never experienced stirring Christmas pudding mix.〔(Stir-Up Sunday – Time to make a start on Christmas Pud! ) Retrieved 24 July 2013〕 It comes with their parents' preference for ready made-mix of puddings available in grocery stores. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stir-up Sunday」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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